on 11/02/2012 00:29 Chuck Swiger said the following: > On Feb 10, 2012, at 2:12 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> I really hate the default behavior of less where you can't quit via ^C or via >> paging through the end of file. > > It's readily tunable, by setenv'ing LESS variable to contain some of: > > -e or --quit-at-eof > Causes less to automatically exit the second time it reaches > end-of-file. By default, > the only way to exit less is via the "q" command. > > -E or --QUIT-AT-EOF > Causes less to automatically exit the first time it reaches > end-of-file. > > -K or --quit-on-intr > Causes less to exit immediately when an interrupt character > (usually ^C) is typed. > Normally, an interrupt character causes less to stop whatever > it is doing and return to > its command prompt. Note that use of this option makes it > impossible to return to the > command prompt from the "F" command.
Exactly. So my larger point is that less and more are actually the same binary and whatever behavior a user prefers can be achieved via MORE or LESS. Neither of the default behaviors was satisfactory enough personally for me. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
